Retail Watchers

Just a reminder that the Sears in Willow Grove, PA and the Kmart in Hamilton, MT close tomorrow, March 6th, if they haven't closed early already.

storewanderer wrote: ↑February 18th, 2022, 12:39 am Assuming this is corporate owned otherwise expect we would see a press release or something about the "local owner."

The Facebook site links to the SHT site, I believe this is not corporate, but likely a new Hometown format.

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It is not very common, but there are sometimes transactions where the retailer sells off the facility, or the lease, including the merchandise. If the buyer really, really wants it bad - sometimes they'll take that deal and then they take on the liquidation aspect. I assume since the store closed i...

For some reason the closure of the Fort Lauderdale Sears yesterday warranted a press release on the corporate website... https://transformco.com/press-releases/pr/2153 The store closed yesterday; one day notice and no liquidation sale. It is fascinating to hear their go-forward strategy has been fo...

Sears has announced the closing of the last full-line store in PA, at Willow Grove "In 2022": https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/01/last-full-line-sears-store-in-pennsylvania-to-close.html Its weird that they wait a week after liquidation sales have already started to post an article. :ro...

Three updates: Removed the Sears in Media, PA that closed around August '21 Key West Sears to be closing in March, not January as earlier reported: https://keysweekly.com/42/key-west-kmart-likely-to-close-in-march/ Sears has announced the closing of the last full-line store in PA, at Willow Grove &q...

I'm moving this to Online Retailers, it has nothing at all to do with supermarkets in California. I'm also providing a warning, as I am worried this will devolve into forbidden subjects.

I updated the list to show the announced closings in Key West and Hamilton, and add Miami on the list which was left out earlier. Could you please update Honolulu as well? The store is long gone as discussed earlier. They only have a tiny inline mattress and appliance store. I will look to clarify ...

@storewanderer Correct. These are the remaining 51 "neighborhood stores" of the 125. 74 have already been closed or currently in the process of closing. Is Silverdale considered a neighborhood store? That's attached to Kitsap Mall, co-anchored with JCP and Kohl's (after Sears' recent depa...